The United States’ Library of Congress provides links to primary source Symbols of the United States along with a Teacher’s Guide. Teachers of other countries can use this teacher’s guide as a model to teach symbols of your country.

(This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Books with interactive features may work best on an iOS device. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later.)

This site is a good start for the study of the Americal Civil War for secondary and post-secondary school students. The Essential Civil War Curriculum site is “produced by today’s foremost Civil War historians. This site contains a definitive list of over 325 topics that every student of the Civil War should study”. It is a collection of resource lists, photographs, and descriptions of seminal events of the war and American history.

Virtual Field Trips– Sign-up to take your class on virtual field trips to American Presidential landmarks and Constitutional resources. A focus on using primary source documents is a big part of these field trips.

Many classrooms have data projectors in their rooms. Introduce your students to spectacular vistas and interesting videos during their start of day seat work by viewing Vimeo’s drone videos. Teachers can Sign-up with Vimeo to receive the Vimeo newsletter with their staff’s top picks to share with your students.

I came across a fascinating website that has loads of information about statistics and the world we live in – Metrocosm. You could spend hours clicking around this site. To start with examine the two centuries of immigration to the United States through this animated graphic. You will be amazed at the change of county base of U.S. immigrants. I did not know that Canadians made up the bulk of immigrants in the early 1900s. Examine the shift of countries of the immigrants over time and think about what was happening in the world at that time.

Canada’s History has created a site, Canada’s Great War Album, that tells stories of Canada and her soldiers who participated in World War I. Use the tabs at the top of the site to locate many online resources. You are invited to submit your story to add to their database.

Students can use this site to view and read about Canadians who made a difference through their heroic part in The Great War’s Battle Fronts: Ypres, Festubert, Mount Sorrel, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Paasendaele, Amiens, and Arras.

PBS offers Crash Courses created by John and Hank Green. They have created these fast-paced digital courses in a range of subject areas and posted on YouTube. The courses are aimed at Grade 9-13+ students. Register as a user to share resources and to create folders. Teachers can use this resource to flip their classrooms.
Subject areas:

Biology

Chemistry

Ecology

US History

World History 1

World History 2

Literature– Titles include: Works by Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, The Odyssey, Frankenstein, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more…

Visit the Canadian Geographic site explaining about Native trade and warfare in the north part of North America from 1600-1648. There is an interactive map and legend that allows users to highlight certain activities in the location they occurred, such as which Native goods were traded where, and where the varying linguistic groups existed.